Science: Biochemist's Boast

Biochemist Henry Borsook of Caltech declared last week that within 100
years "neurologists will be able to control the evil in mankind on a
scientific basis." In less blasphemous, more scientific language he
elaborated:

"In the future when a man behaves in a criminal manner, we will not say
he is crazy or vicious. . . . Instead we will know that too much
pyruvic acid has accumulated in his thalamic cells, or that there is
no cocarboxylase, a high-brow term for Vitamin BI, operating in his
thalamus. We will be able to tell...